Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by eight women. Sixteen people spoke to CNN, with eight women accusing the 80-year-old of harassment and eight people claiming that they witnessed Freeman’s alleged behaviour.
One woman alleged that while working as a production assistant on the film Going In Style, starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin, in 2015, Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching and comments about her clothes and body.
She claimed that on one occasion, the actor ‘kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear’, and he became ‘freaked out’ when Arkin told him to stop.
Another woman who worked on the set of Now You See Me in 2012 said: ‘He did comment on our bodies… We knew that if he was coming by … not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms, meaning not wearing clothes that [were] fitted.’
Four people making the allegations worked in production on sets with Freeman over the past decade; they said they didn’t report his alleged behaviour as they feared for their jobs.
A number of the allegations referred to the environment at Revelations Entertainment, his production company with Lori McCreary. Six former staff members at the company told CNN that they allegedly witnessed ‘questionable behaviour’ from Freeman around women, including making sexual comments and ‘an incident of unsolicited touching’.
A woman who worked as a manager at the company said that the Oscar-winner would ‘come over to my desk to say hi and he’d just stand there and stare at me. He would stare at my breasts.’ The website also alleges that Freeman was inappropriate towards some female reporters while promoting his films.
Chicago WGN-TV’s entertainment producer Tyra Martin alleged that once, she pulled down her skirt while standing up after an interview with Freeman, to which the actor said: ‘Oh, don’t pull it down now.’
Freeman gave no statement to CNN.
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